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Home: Weight Lifting for WomanSo don't worry about it ladies you can work out with weights and get phenomenal health benefits like losing weight and looking younger - yes I said "losing weight" and "looking younger" - by weightlifting! Lean muscle burns calories. Lean muscle is sexy. There is absolutely no reason why fitness conscious women, and I think today most are, needs to restrict her workouts to just cardio and aerobics. Women can benefit form lean muscle mass as much as men. Biological fact number two - we lose muscle mass as we age, do nothing to replace it, we lose strength and tone and look and feel older. Most Women also know that they are more susceptible to bone density loss than men, so they take calcium supplements. Weightlifting strengthens and builds not only muscle but bones. Studies in women, have shown that resistance training such as weightlifting cannot only prevent but in some cases can reverse the effects of osteoporosis. Ladies you want shape - you want a figure - building up the muscles of your shoulders and back will make your waist look smaller. And lets not forget about what weightlifting can do for the old Gluteus Maximus. You really want "Buns of Steel"? - Pump Iron! Trainers do not suggest that women give up aerobics altogether. In fact a workout regimen that combines traditional cardio-aerobics and weightlifting is ideal. However one more point to note a recent study following women age 24-34 conducted by the Jon Hopkins University found that women who lifted weights continued to burn calories sometimes up to 2 hours longer after the exercise then women who did a comparable period of aerobics.
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